The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I was born on January 8, 1942, exactly three hundred years after the death of Galileo. I estimate, however, that about two hundred thousand other babies were also born that day. I don’t know whether any of them was later interested in astronomy.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

The lessons of history would suggest that civilisations move in cycles. You can track that back quite far – the Babylonians, the Sumerians, followed by the Egyptians, the Romans, China. We’re obviously in a very upward cycle right now, and hopefully that remains the case. But it may not.

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

I think you can judge from somebody’s actions a kind of a stability and sense of purpose perhaps created by strong religious roots. I mean, there’s a certain patience, a certain discipline, I think, that religion helps you achieve.

Facts are not liberals‘ strong suit. Rhetoric is.

The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

If you don’t like what someone has to say, argue with them.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion.

There is no scriptural basis for segregation.

When my ancestors came from Africa, they were shackled by our neck, our wrists, and our ankles in steel chains. I’ve turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fact that I’m still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

Many things shall change in Cuba, but they shall change because of our efforts and despite the United States. Perhaps that empire shall crumble first.

Everything is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

That government is best which governs least.

What religion a man holds, to what race he belongs, these things are not important; the really important thing is this knowledge: the knowledge of God’s plan for men. For God has a plan, and that plan is evolution.

Every writer has his writing technique – what he can and can’t do to describe something like war or history. I’m not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit.

People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

One of the roles of the Presidency is to lead a political party. Having a President in office is usually a huge advantage to a party because it gives the party a mouthpiece and an advocate at the highest level.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.

The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.

If I studied all my life, I couldn’t think up half the number of funny things passed in one session of congress.

I’m trying to make God more relevant in our society.

London is a roost for every bird.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

There’s nothing like white trash at the White House.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

The facts tell us that no religious Faith releases – or ever has released at any moment in History – a higher degree of warmth, a more intense dynamism of unification than the Christianity of our own day – and the more Catholic it is, the truer my words.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

Because I know about the Holy Land, I’ve taught lessons about the Holy Land all my life, and – but you can’t bring peace to Israel without giving the Palestinian also peace. And Lebanon and Jordan and Syria as well.

Being brought up very religious, I have a fear of people that look to idol gods.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Religion, born of the earth’s need for the disclosing of a god, is related to and co-extensive with not the individual man, but the whole of mankind.

Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

To terrify children with the image of hell… to consider women an inferior creation. Is that good for the world?

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we’re really talking about peace.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.